J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Greenwich Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Notes of Dimensions (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1808

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Notes of Dimensions (Inscriptions by Turner)’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
Notes of Dimensions (Inscriptions by Turner) circa 1808
D06768
Turner Bequest CII 25
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry) on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘25’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CII 25’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg transcribed only the first part of these notes, which begin ‘13 Feet 7 to the inside of Pannel moulding | door 2 ft ¾ – 7 feet 10 Inches’ and record similar measurements below. In the context of the various notes in the sketchbook for Turner’s lectures as Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy, these could relate to a building or to architectural backgrounds in paintings.

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Notes of Dimensions (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2007, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-notes-of-dimensions-inscriptions-by-turner-r1130861, accessed 21 September 2024.